Shel Silverstein is one of America's best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it's nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense.

Presents stories and poems that probe to the depths of the human psyche. This book includes the detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue ; the disturbing classic, The Fall of the House of Usher and the horrifyingly claustrophobic, The Pit and the Pendulum .

Shel Silverstein is one of America's best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it's nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense.

This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece .

Helps you rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood. This book features classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson, from make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers.

This new annotated edition inlcudes Live Oak, with Moss and prose selections from Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days . The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles.

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs.

These poems are, in Robert Lowells' words, events rather than the record of events, and as such, represent the triumph of the poet's romantic ambition .

This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript.

The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were .

One of four colour paperbacks in this series that form the most major relaunch of the Pooh paperback list in the last decade. Each title can be bought individually or in a stunning slipcase of all four titles: the perfect christening or birthday gift.

Collected poems reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Dylan Thomas's death.

This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems.

This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes Endymion , Lamia , Isabella and Hyperion .